When you are young and reading catcher in the rye for the first time, you get only parts of what Holden Caulfield is going through. You smile at some things that he says because you can relate to it instantly but some you do not understand and dismiss as too much cynicism. That is until you sit in one of the farewell mettings.
Ahh....a farewell meeting. So many people laughso and yet cannot finish it. I remember the good old farewell meetings that we used to have 2 years ago. People genuinely missed people. Little was said because there was no need to. Everything that was to be said was already said in that 6months-1year that we spent together.
Back to the future and stuck in this meeting and all I can think of is what Holden Caulfield would describe as 'f**cking phony'. I try to take in a few words and understand its meaning but there is none. Because they are not meant. They are just gap fillers. They are drawn out, make little sense, have no humour and yet people laugh at it. And suddenly my mind conjuers an image of taking a chainsaw to the meeting. Ahhh...instant gratification!!! And suddentl Holden makes a lot more sense than he ever did!! So for the next 15 minutes I spend imagining how to carve up the bastards in the most grizzly way possible. And before you know, the ordeal is over. Phew!
F**king phony bastards.
